Conveyor operation and excavation extended working hours

What we are doing

We are extending the excavation and conveyor operation working hours during April and June to allow us to decommission the conveyor from July.

Timings of works
From 8 April to 29 June 2024, we will be extending the excavation and conveyor operation working hours at Old Oak Common. The conveyor and the excavator will now be working outside our core working hours (8am to 6pm). The extended working hours will be from 6pm until 2am during the week, and 8am-6pm on Saturdays.

Work will take place in the Old Oak Common site area known as the Station Box (the site of the future HS2 station). The works will mainly take place in the Central Box area, set back from Old Oak Common Lane and nearby homes. All spoil will be taken to the conveyor loading point using plant vehicles and then removed by the conveyor in line with current operations. See the map on for locations.

Most lighting will be underground where work will take place. We will use some surface floodlighting, but this will be facing away from residents’ properties. Our noise modelling shows that noise levels from running the conveyor would not go above the noise level of the core working hours. See page 2 for more information about how we will minimise disruption to the local community.

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If you have a question about HS2 or our works, please contact our HS2 Helpdesk team on 08081 434 434 or email [email protected]